What are Some Examples of Blockbusting?
Examples of blockbusting include: • when real estate agents alert the members of a neighborhood that it is “changing” and that they should sell their property ; • making house-by-house telephone calls urging member of a neighborhood that they should sell before their property values decrease; • spreading of rumors by real estate agents that property values are on the decline in a certain area because people of a certain race or ethnicity are moving there
